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nM HONEY-MOIEY 
^ STOEIES 




By Paul Point, 
Orvice Sisson and Albion Qirard 

With Valuable Items by Charles C. Miller 



Thirty=three Illustrations 
Price, 25 Cents 



" If the reader of this book "— 

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Kating Honey 
Improves Health 







Better Health 
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THE 

HONEY=M0NEY 
STORIES 

BY 

ORVICE SISSON 

or the Society of Economic Research, 

PAUL POINT 

Of the Chicago Registration League, 

ALBION GIRAKD 

Of the Accuracy Press Bureau, 

AND 

CHARLES 0. MILLER 

On Honey Information. 



Edited by EARL M. PRATT 

(Copyright li)05 by George W. Yokk) 



CHICAGO, ILIv. 

GEORGE W. YORK & CO. 

PUBLISHERS. 



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pure honey for your plate | 




'\^ from honey, but is about 
and money for your purse. 



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The Gudgeonville Bridge 



Wilmcr had been a school teacher, but was now 
looking for something different in the way of oppor- 
tunity, and the trouble was he didn't know what he 
was looking for. He owned several acres of fine 
woods or timber land, near a deep ravine where 
there was a big, busy tannery. One dav when the 
clouds over his hopefulness were the thickest, the old 
tanner met him, and said, "Wilmer, I will give you ten 
dollars a day for the use of a bridge across this ravine. 
You build the bridge and keep it in repair, and I'll l)e- 
gin paying you from the first day it is ready to use." 

This was the unknown something that Wilmer had 
been getting ready for. 

He used up a great deal of the timber on his land, 
and mortgaged the land, and had done everything he 
could to finish the bridge, but it was not quite finished. 
He needed some more money, and he didn't know 
where to get it. One thing he had decided not to do, 
and that was to ask the old tanner for money in ad- 
vance. 

While trving to figure out a solution to his perplex- 
ity, he got a letter asking him to deliver a $25 lecture 
at a teachers' institute in the next county. This 
brought a good-sized ray of hope to him, and the next 
day he went to the county seat of his own localitv to 
do a little business, and while walking bv the front of 
a store which was being painted, a painter accidentallv 
spattered up his clothes in a ruinous manner, and they 
were the clothes he intended to lecture in, and he had 



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The Truck Garden Home with Bee- Veil oa the Man 




HE EMPLOYED from three to 
five men by the year and in- 
sisted on each man saving two- 
thirds of his income. They were given 
board, washing, and $150 a year. Un- 
less they saved $100 a year Harvey 
would not employ them. Some did not 
like his arbitrary way and left him for 
liberty, but those who remained five 
years had some good ideas and $500 in 
cash. Then Harvey was ready to help 
them get started for themselves. 



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no money for new ones. What to do was beyond his- 
imagination, but in less than five minutes he met a 
\oung- man who was full of enthusiasm and very glad 
to meet him, and this young man seemed to think it 
was a big joke to have the paint on Wilmer's clothes. 
As Wilmer did not cheer up very much over the 
young man's hilarity, the latter got down to serious 
thought, and said : 

"Now, Wilmer, I have been wanting to see you for 
weeks. You may have forgotten about helping me 
start my truck-garden a few years ago, but it has 
been quite a success, and my health is ten times as 
good as it was at that time. I got down to eating plain 
food and using a little honey every day. The work in 
the truck-garden gave me good exercise, and while I 
have some money ahead to-day, my improved health is 
more important than the money. I wish you would 
tell me where to put $200 at 4 per cent interest. I 
have it with me now, and T want to do something with 
it, and you are just the one to advise me." 

Wilmer asked the young man to let him think a few 
minutes, and they stood there by the curbstone until 
Wilmer invited him to come into a restaurant and have 
some lunch. There he told him the story of the bridge 
and how he was situated. Then he offered the young 
man 5 per cent interest for the money for six months. 

The voung man replied, "Wilmer, T am willing to 
give you the money for nothing, both principal and 
interest, if it's of any use to you, because my success 
to-day is due to your kindness." 

Wilmer insisted on the 5 per cent and written recog- 
nition of the loan. New clothes were purchased, the 
lecture was a success, the bridge was finished, and all 
the debts paid. 

Now there is a little house on the wood-lot, and no 
happier home in the world. 



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WASTED enero-y is an enemy of 
wealth. Poor tools and abused 
earnestness make trouble, and 
trouble is also made by dishonesty be- 
fore s:^ood tools and unrespected kind- 
ness. Every thinker should also be a 
worker in the interest of real wisdom be- 
tween man and man. Conditions mi^'ht 
be better for evervbody on earth. 



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Using a Horse-Food 



To prove to you that I am not the only one in the 
world who thinks that there is some relation hetween 
what you eat and your business ability to do things, let 
me tell you the story of a man who had been watching 
for a food to add to his bill of fare. 

When he read that some horses in New York had 
been improved in appetite and appearance by being giv- 
en a little molasses daily with t^^eir grain, he jumped 
to the idea because he remembered bow he wanted it 
on his bread when a boy and his mother laughed him 
out of it. 

NTnw he started in to make up time, an''' had two 
slices of bread and molasses the first thing every break- 
fast. It was rather obiectionable to some members of 
his family, and when warm weather came his zeal let 
up a little, but just as he was thinking about a vacation 
on his horse-food he was interested in the pure food law 
and extracted honey. This took the place of molasses 
and pleased the grouji at the table, but he claims that 
if he could not get the honev he would not be without 
molasses. 




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years for a breakfast drink slu' 
has had nothing except a spoon- 
ful of pure extracted honey dissolved in 
a cup of hot water. 



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FOOD AND EXERCISE 



THE DAY is cominj;- when every 
disease will be eurecl by specially 
prepared foods and exercises. The 
foods will be inviting- to the eye and 
pleasant to the taste, but man will never 
make anything^ superior to the product 
of the honey-bee. The exercises will be 
mental and phvsical, but thev will never 
be superior to working- for others, to 
their benefit and your profit. 




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Money Mentally 



The old man had been in trouble and lost everything 
except the refusal of some property out in the country. 
He had to go on crutches, due to an accident. But he 
had a head. Advertising agencies, printers and other 
Inisiness men told him he could have anything he 
wanted, and pay for it when he got ready. 

The old man started in anew. He fixed up a flat for 
a home and office combined. With credit he began, and 
in a couple years he had a prosperous mail-order busi- 
ness with but one thing to sell. It was worth selling, 
and gave buyers satisfaction ; but many men with a 
bag of gold to start with would have failed because they 
would not know how to manage and make money. He 
knew how. Nine people out of ten know how to man- 
age and lose money. He had a head which could man- 
age other people in a wav to give them a living, and 
leave him a profit. People have never had enough re- 
spect for heads such as this old man's crippled body 
possessed. 

Credit is money, and what is money? While on a 
street-car I heard a man tell another man this about a 
young fellow who had some money : "He has money, 
but he does not know what monev is — money is a 
lever." 



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Nestor of American Bee-Keeping 



OLD BEE MAN'S WISDOM 



TrIE REAL food value of honey in 
milk or on bread and crackers, is 
worth knowing. If you are not 
aware of it make some tests. If you 
cat too much you may injure your ap- 
petite for a wonderfully useful food. 
You can secure or regain an appetite 
for honey by using a very little of it 
dailv. 



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TO THE IIOXEV-MOXKV STORIES 

From J. B. W. 



It struck nie that the following- from "Success" 
misht interest some of vour thinkers : 

Cheerfulness is Power. 

Fate itself has to concede a great many things 
to the cheerful man. The man who persistently faces 
the sun so that all shadows fall behind him, the man 
who keeps his machinery well luljricated with love and 
good cheer, can withstand the hard jolts and disap- 
pointments of life infinitely better than the man who 
always looks at the dark side. A man who loves shad- 
ows, who dwells forever in the gloom — a pessimistic 
man — has very little power in the world as compared 
with a bright, sunny soul. 

The world makes wav for the cheerful man ; all 
doors fly open to him who radiates sunshine. He does 
not need an introduction ; like the sunlight, he is wel- 
come everywhere. 

A cheerful disposition is not only a power, it is also 
a g^reat health tonic. A depressed mind makes the 
system more susceptible to disease : encourages its 
development because it kills the power of resistance. A 
cheerful soul can resist disease, and it is well known 
among physicians that there is a greater chance for re- 
covery from exhaustive diseases of a bright sunny 
soul than of a gioomv, despondent one. Cheerfulness 
is health : melancholy is disease. Gloom and depres- 
sion feed disease and hasten its development. 

I am thankful to J. B. W. for sending this to me. 
When we know how to get and use pure milk and 
honey, good wheat and corn breads, and then exercise 
wisely, we must be cheerful, 



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and follow the orders of those who pa\- 
for the work is a source of executive 
skill. To know how to work is a trade 
and a profession comhined. 



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A Bee-Yard in the Wiater-Time 



The Difference 



A man worked over thirty years on a machine and 
without success. A practical young man married this 
man's daughter and made the machine a money-maker. 
Why and how ? You cannot go in two directions at the 
same time. You could not take breakfast in Augusta. 
Maine, and sui:)per the same day in Sitka, Alaska. But 
the inventor could go up into theory while the practi- 
cal son-in-law could go down into supply and demand. 
The inventor could breakfast in Maine while the young 
man could supper in Alaska. 

Men starve their purses while in love with their 
theories, and men starve their minds wdiile in love with 
their bursting purses. But there are many men who 
think and love theories, and also make money. The 
latter are the fortunate people of all. 

Yet, the world gains great things by those who are 
sacrificed in their efforts. That zeal, without wisdom, 
which is adding to the world's wisdom and conven- 
iences and wealth, should get the respect which it does 
get in centuries after the expensive victory is won. 



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NO MANUFACTURED COMB 

HONEY 



IN THESE days of prevailing adul- 
teration, when so often "things arc 
not what they seem," it is a com- 
fort to know that strictly pure honey, ,^V« 
both extracted and comb, can still be had ^ 
and at a reasonable price. The silly 
stories seen from time to time in the 
papers about artificial combs being filled 

with glucose, and deftly sealed over with 
a hot iron, have not the slightest founda- 
tion in fact. For years there has been 
a standing ofifer by one whose financial 
responsibility is unquestioned, of $i,ooo 
for a single pound of comb honey made 
without the intervention of bees. The 
ofifer remains untaken, and will prob- 
ably always remain so, for the highest 
art of man can never compass such deli- 
cate workmanship as the skill of the bee 
accomplishes. 

With extracted honey the case is dif- 
ferent. When you see in the grocery a 
tumbler of liquid honey with a small 
piece of comb honey in the center, you •, 

may be pretty sure the liquid honey is '^P« 

not hone}- at all, br.t glucose. If not 
familiar enough with honev to detect 
it by the taste, your onlv safe course is 
to buy of some one who kuows as to its 
source and upon whose honestv you can 
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A Piece of Rubber 



It is the size of a little child's fat hand, but I am told 
that the inventor who made it worked 17 years and 
spent $30,000.00 on his experiments. 

He may never make much money out of it, and yet 
he may become wealthy from the sale of the machine 
of which it is a main part. 

If he fails he will be called by some a fool. If he 
succeeds these same people will call him a genius. 

Do such seekers after new ideas work for years for 
the money there may be in the discovery ? There must 
be a love for the work rather than a love for the wealth 
which may come from success, though a hope of wealth 
or glory may start many on this path. 

How can inventive people become more successful 
financially? One man told me that his father invented 
many good things, any one of which would have made 
him wealthy if marketed correctly, but he kept all of 
them on the shelf for fear of getting cheated, and 
never profited by his origin? lit v. 

One thinker was in jail for debt while studying out 
a chemical compound, but later became a national suc- 
cess. He had a marketable product when it was 
ready, and he put all his time on it when he once got 
it started. 

Yesterdav a good business man told me about a 
man who had a good article but he got rid of his part- 
ners and then found that he did not know how to mar- 
ket his own good article. Sales fell to a small figure. 



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In the Foothills of California 

I CO-OPERATION 



MINES, forests, the waters and the 
earth are the foundations of all 
wealth, but the man who invents 
a machine that helps the workers get 
twice as much for their labor is cer- 
tainly useful. Then the person who 
lengthens the life of the inventor for the 
creation of more useful machinery is a 
helper. 

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as they gather honey for the good 
of man. Some money makers ben- 
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monev. 



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and he was forced to hitch up with a man that knew 
how to put things on the market and keep them there. 
It is easy to find good things to push, and difficult 
to find men who can successfully push them. Why? 
Well, to market an article requires a steady energy 
and ready resourcefulness few people possess. You 
can walk ten miles in ten hours but can you run ten 
miles in one hour? Competition may require the busi- 
ness man to think ten days in ten minutes or to work 
twenty hours a day for a month. I was told about 
a wealthy American who marketed an article success- 
fully but who had never recovered physically from two 
weeks of work done at a critical period in his business. 

Down in the heart of Indiana a year ago I sat in 
the office of an energetic and resourceful man who 
had forced the world to stop and think, and purchase 
his goods. As he finished his day's work and turned 
to me he said, "This work is something fierce — these 
people who come in and tell me how to do things make 
me tired — they know about as much about it as" — 
then he got off some special remarks which were char- 
acteristic of the man. 

He was right, and he was wrong. Outsiders knew 
little about the hard work he had to do to make his 
big money, but as great men as he have been ruined by 
not recognizing the telescopic wisdom in the sugges- 
tions of some caller or agent. Everyone needs to know 
more, and everyone knows something useful. A bar- 
ber does not cut his own hair. 






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ETTER be useful than rich, but 
never forget that it is possible to 
be both. 



SOME people love the busy hum of 
factory life as much as a bee en- 
joys gathering honey. The scholar 
among his favorite books is never hap- 
pier than some mechanical workers 
among the machinery. Men go from 
farm to factory, and from factory to 
farm, and ^ome think most of the oil 
and iron odors of the shop, but city peo- 
ple are seeking the farms more and more 
everv vear. 




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A Farmer's Confession 



Several years ago I saw a prosperous farmer stand- 
ing in his barn door, and as I had a httle time to spare 
I drove up to try to find out why he was prosperous. 
One reason for my curiosity was due to having heard 
that he had plowed under a field of wheat because he 
was ashamed to let such a poor crop as it was likely to 
be. be seen on his farm. I knew that other farmers 
would have lacked the nerve to plow under such a crop. 
They would have gone on caring for it, though they 
lost money by doing so. 

This farmer in his barn door had some answers to 
my direct questions, and one was that the reason why 
he was a good farmer, or, rather, why he was success- 
ful as a farmer, was because his father was a good 
farmer, one of the best that he'd ever known. 

This made me think of a young man who was given 
a farm by his father, who was a good farmer, but the 
son was not able to pay the taxes, and soon the farm 
got away from him. The good farmer in the barn door 
said he had read many things in the papers that 
had helped him, and one was that it paid to roll the 
wheat stubble for the clover cro]i, while the clover was 
a few inches high. This was an entirely new idea to 
him, and it had been decidedly worth while to do. 

The above was written months ago, and this morn- 
ing I read that this farmer had been in charge of some 
railroad lands which he managed so successfully that 
the railroad officials had invited him to another locality 
in consultation over some property which had been de- 
preciating in value. 



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I GRANULATED HOxMEY— TO RE- § 

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WIIEX honey is kept for any | 

length of time it has a tendency g 

to change from its clear liquid g 

condition, and becomes granulated or g 

candied. This is not to be taken as any S 

evidence against its genuineness, but S 

rather the coutrary. Some prefer it in ti 

the candied state, but the majority pre- I 

fer it liquid. It is an easy matter to re- | 

store it to its former liquid condition. 8 

{ Simply keep it in hot water long enough, i 

I biif not too Jiot. If heated above i6o | 

I degrees there is danger of spoiling the | 

I color and ruining the flavor. Remember • 

I that honey contains the most delicate of 5 

I all flavors — that of the flowers from 5 

■ which it is taken. A good way is to S 

I set the vessel containing the honey inside g 

I another vessel containing hot water, not I 

I allowing the bottom of the one to rest g 

I directly on the bottom of the other, but 2 

I putting a bit of wood or something of 6 

I the kind between. Let it stand on the | 

f stove, but do not let the water boil. It 4 

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I mav take half a day or longer to melt 6 

I the honey. If the honey is set directly 4 

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I be all right in a few days. In time it i 

I will granulate again, when it must again ^ 

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Observation Hive Inside of Sitting-Room Window 



Sawdust 



That is what the girls called him because he kept 
tellino- them that their dolls were filled with sawdust. 
Of course they didn't enjoy his ridicule. If you have a 
piano and some one comes in and tears it to pieces to 
prove to you that it is veneered and not solid wood, 
your love for that person grows smaller. 

"Sawdust" was a boy born to grow as thoughtlessly 
as a tree, and he was not born mentally until about 25 
years of age. His parents had been too busy to think, 
and when he was a few years old he went to live with 
an uncle and aunt where there were noi pets and no 
garden. The uncle had a yoke of old oxen with which 
he did his farming. The nearest neighbors were miles 
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be as ignorant as "Sawdust." One day his aunt 
thought enough about his future to have him visit his 
cousins, two girls about his own age. 

He walked the 15 miles to their home and spent a 
few days with them. About all he did was to make- 
fun of the girls for playing with sawdust-filled dolls, 
and they were thankful when his visit was over and 
he went back. That is how "Sawdust" got his name. 
But he went back to work early and late — work so 
hard that for years he did not think beyond the me- 
chanical circle of his daily duties. 

Again he visited the home of his cousins. This time 
to pay their father some money due hiiu from the uncle 
with whom the boy lived. "Sawdust" could not believe 
his eyes. He had not thought that he had changed un- 
til he saw the girls in homes near their old home and 
with "dolls" without any sawdust. The "dolls" were 
full of life, and would not stand any ridiculing. "Saw- 
dust" began to think. The real little boys and girls 
proved that he had been asleep. One of the cousins 
had an observatory hive of bees in her sitting-room 
window which interested "Sawdust" so much that he 
partly forgot his embarrassment. He was treated to 
honey for the first time, and the girl's father told him 
that "there is much trouble in the world because people 
have too much or too little money, and that people eat 
too much or too little honey ; if you eat too much it 
will be some time before you want any more, while vou 
should have it on your table at least once every day." 
"Sawdust" graduated from his nickname during this 
visit, and in a few years he had a farm with horses, 
and a barn with pets and a garden with beehives back 
of it. 

He had a house with a busy little crowd in it. One 
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HIS is a picture of one of the busi- 
est places in the world. It is a 
metropolitan market center. It 
has many stories of honey and money. 
Men fail and men win here. It requires 
good common-sense and an interest in 
the subject to win. One man told me 
that he got to his place early and thought 
of nothing but his business during the 
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would permit no one to mention sawdust to her. He 
always had a heart, but it took him a long- time to find 
it out. To-day he is one of the most considerate men 
in the world. He is trying to pay the debt he owes the 
world — the debt he contracted when he was a cvnic. 




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iiji is a great mistake. Honey may iji 

•*• be of good, heavy bod}' — what bee-keep- -ij* 

tJ? crs call "well-ripened" — weighing gen- i^f 

T'l'? erally twelve pounds to the gallon, or ♦}• 

^iT it may be quite thin. It may also be ^{^ 

TfT granulated, or candied, more solid than ^^ 

Tff lard. It may be almost as colorless as %f 

•|T water, and it may be as black as the dark- ?»•? 

•fT est molasses. The flavor of honev varies %f 

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*•* obtained. It would be impossible to de- *•? 

*f* scribe in words the flavors of the differ- *»T 

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•jjr" the odor of a rose from that of a carna- ■'■•••■ 

*!* tion, but vou might find it difficult to de- ^f*^ 

^wlk scribe them in words so that a novice ''J/J" 

^wjw' smelling them for the first time could 'Jj" 

.wjk! tell which was which. But the different '^ 

■^J.^" flavors in honey are just as distinct as ^'JC" 

wl* t'le odors in flowers. Among the lisfht- JtC" 

.wj^! colored honeys are white clover, linden 'il^. 

^l. (or basswood) sage, sweet clover, alfal- '{C! 

.tf«». fa, willow-herb, etc., and among the ,'|w. 

^♦^ darker are found heartsease, magnolia ^•i 

^♦i for poplar), horse-mint, buckwheat, etc. i^i 

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Eucalyptus Blossoms 

YOUR TEETH AND HONEY 



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**Thars An Apple 



The old fire insurance agent sat on the wagon-mak- 
er's sawhorse. He was a bright man but not the only 
jackknife in the show-case. Some were better, some 
were worse; others were just like him. He had been 
jollying the mechanic's boy who was tinkering at the 
vise, and had got the laugh on the boy. A painter 
was working at the other side of the room and enjoy- 
ing the fun. 

The agent got up and went to the bench, picked up 
an apple and asked, "What is that?" 

Before any one could answer the boy jerked out, 
"An apple !" 

The laugh was on the agent who was struck dumb. 
The painter said that the boy was worth saving. The 
father remarked that honey and salt saved him, as for 
many vears the croup hung around the house like a 
bat in the night, and nothing helped until some one put 
them on to this God-given remedy. 

"How did you use it?" asked the painter. The father 
replied, "Mix a half teaspoonful each of honey and salt 
for any kind of a croupy cough unless due to a bron- 
chial cold that remains on all day and night. For the 
latter drink hot corn-meal gruel very thin with or with- 
out milk, but salted, and put honey on the chest as a 
warmer and tonic." 



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(Lincoln Monument in Beeswax) 



HONEY ON SUNDAY NIGHT 



AN ENERGETIC man tells me 
that nothing suits him better, on 
Sunday evening, just before retir- 
ing, than a bowl of milk sweetened with 
a tablespoonful of pure extracted honey, 
and bread broken into it. He does not 
eat anything from 2 to 9 130 p. m. on 
Sundays. 

THE COLOR and taste of honey 
depend on what flowers the bees 
gather from. Some people prefer 
the dark to the light grades. 



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The Beginner 



He came into the woods with a bag of potatoes and 
garden seeds on his back, an axe in one hand, a gun 
in the other, determination in his muscles, and good 
judgment in his head. 

Cutting down trees in a way to have them fall across 
one another for burning, some land was cleared and 
vegetables started. Fish were caught and game was 
shot, and a home was started. The skins of wild ani- 
mals were traded for meal and salt, and step by step the 
beginner accumulated tools, grains, clothing and build- 
ings. Some claim that the motion of the human hand 
is the source of wealth, but it is only a changer of one 
form of wealth into another form. 

You can see how a poor man could walk into a finan- 
cially panic-stricken city, where thousands of workers 
were idle, and by a willingness to do whatever his hands 
found to do with all his might, and by a resourcefulness 
to think to the benefit of every one, he could create a 
place for himself and enjoy success while many others 
might be buried in failure on account of ignorance and 
inactivity. 






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THE HONEY-MONEY STORIES 



CARE OF HONEY— WHERE TO 
KEEP IT 



THE AVERAGE housekeeper will 
put honey in the cellar for safe- 
keeping — about the worst place 
possible. Honey readily attracts moist- 
ure, and in the cellar extracted honey 
will become ihin, and in time may sour ; 
and with comb honey the case is still 
worse, for the appearance as well as 
the quality is changed. The beauti- 
ful white surface becomes watery and 
darkened, drops of water ooze through 
the cappings, and weep over the sur- 
face. Instead of keeping honey in 
a place moist and cool, keep it 
dry and warm, even hot. It will not 
hurt to be in a temperature of even lOO 
degrees. Where salt will keep dry is 
a good place for honey. Few places are 
better than the kitchen cupboard. Up in 
a hot garret next the roof is a good 
place, and if it has had enough hot days 
there through the summer, it will stand 
the freezing of winter ; for under ordi- 
nary circumstances freezing cracks the 
combs, and hastens granulation or can- 
dvins:. 



34 THE HONEY-MONEY STORIES 

About a Farmer's Boy Who Was Born 
in a City Flat 



You could see that he was a farmer through and 
through, and when he was old enough to visit his 
grandfather's farm he was in his element. Winters he 
lived at home in the little flat in the big city, but sum- 
mers he managed to spend among the horses and cows, 
chickens and bees, and in a big orchard. One day his 
grandmother told him to watch the bees and he was 
able to help her catch a swarm that was leaving the hive. 
For this she gave him 25 cents, and while he was won- 
dering what to do with the money she offered to sell him 
a fine chicken, and let him earn in various ways food 
on which to keep it. When the chicken was ready to 
sell he had earned more money to put with the money 
that he got for it, and with this he bought a little pig. 

He became so interested in rural life, and his health 
on the farm was so much better than in the flat that 
he lengthened his summer year by year until he was 
with the animals the greater part of the time. 

When the pig was ready to sell he had not only 
earned money for its food, but more money to 
go with that received from the sale of the pig. With 
this he purchased a calf. He continued to earn money 
for its food and some money to save. When he sold 
the calf he ran in debt to purchase a colt, but he earned 
money and paid the debt ; he earned money and paid 
for the feed, and he earned monev to save. After sell- 
ing the colt he purchased a piece of land, making a 
first payment on it. He rented a part of the land and 
cultivated the remainder himself. 

After paying for the land he built a small barn on 



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OT ONLY is honey the most 
wholesome of all sweets, but it 
is the most delicious. No prepa- 
ration of man can equal the delicately 
flavored product of the hive. Millions 
of flowers are brought under tribute, pre- 
senting their tiny cups of dainty nectar 
to be gathered by the busy riflers ; and 
when they have brought it to the proper 
consistency, and stored it in the won- 
drously-wrought waxen cells, and sealed 
it with coverings of snowy whiteness, no 
more tempting dish can grace the table 
at the most lavish banquet ; and yet its 
cost is so moderate that it may well find 
its place on the tables of the common 
people every day in the week. 



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it, and the next year he buik a cottage, and rented the 
farm. By this time he was working in the citv win- 
ters, and Hving' with the family on his farm during 
the summer. 

The next improvement was another cottage, and 
that meant a wife and a home. Now he is going back 
and forth, on his farm summers and in the city win- 
ters, with a helper on the farm who enjoys hving there 
the year, round, and a helper in the city, who enjoys 
the city all the year. It is a good thing that all of us 
do not think alike. Some people abhor the city, and 
some people abhor the country. 

A woman in Cleveland, Ohio, said that her remem- 
brance of the awful barrenness of her girlhood life in 
the country made her feel that she never wanted to 
leave the city for a single day, after once getting into 
it. While a young man in Chicago, with a natural 
desire for rural freedom, confessed that while he was 
rooming near the rear of a very large, low-priced flat- 
building, he felt that every day in the city was prison- 
life for him, and the only way that he could endure it 
was to get out in the suburbs for a home, and limit his 
city life to working hours. 

Some people work in the city in order to have their 
evenings in the city, for the entertainment there is in 
the bright and active life. There are two school-teach- 
ers who are out in country towns during the winter, 
and during the summer they are living in a city flat, 
for the sake of the educational advantages and social 
opportunities. 

There are people in the city who suflfer from poor 
health due to a lack of exercise and too rich food, while 
there are people in the country who are suffering from 
too much exercise and a monotonous and drv diet. It 



THE HONEY-MONEY STORIES 



37 




Where Bees Built Their Comb on a Fence-Rail 



HONEY CARAMELS 



ONE CUP extracted honey of best 
flavor, I cup granulated sugar, 3 
tablespoon fuls sweet cream or 
milk. Boil to "soft crack," or until it 
hardens when dropped into cold water, 
but not too brittle — just so it will form 
into a soft ball when taken in the fin- 
gers. Pour into a greased dish, stirring 
in a teaspoonful extract of vanilla just 
before taking ofif. Let it be ^ or ^ 
inch deep in the dish ; and as it cools, cut 
in squares and wrap each square in 
paraffine paper, such as grocers wrap 
butter in. To make chocolate-caramels, 
add to the foregoing i tablespoon ful 
melted chocolate, just before taking off 
the stove, stirring it in well. For choco- 
late-caramels it is not so important that 
the honey be of best quality. 



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38 THE HONEY-MONEY STORIES 

is a good thing for both classes to have the exchange 
of places. Many a city man would be blessed by a 
winter in the woods with an axe, and one of the hap- 
piest of men was a well-to-do farmer who spent his 
winters in the city as a dealer in a rural product which 
he secured in the neighborhood of his farm. 

A city dentist and his wife after working together 
for ten years purchased a little farm, and while getting 
some supplies for it in the city one of them said, "We 
don't want to see the city again for five years." 

Some forethought planning will enable many people 
to get more out of life than they're getting to-day. In 
place of worrying all the time over uncomfortable con- 
ditions, think a few minutes a day, or five minutes a 
week even, systematically, and whatever is being done 
will be better done, and whatever you want to do is 
more likelv to come. A man who has been forced 
to live in the city while wanting to live in the country, 
says that he has injured his work and postponed better 
opportunities, by using working time to worry over 
subjects which should never be worried over at any 
time, and which should be thought of only in private 
time. He wishes now that he had locked these subjects 
in a box and let them out but five minutes a dav before 
breakfast, for deliberate study. He thinks that many 
a wasted life might have been a success, had the per- 
son spent eight hours a day doing practical work, and 
five minutes a day on his pet subject. Five minutes 
a day for five years will accomplish more than the aver- 
age life accomplishes, in the usual unsystematic way 
in which people live. 

If the reader of this book will spend five minutes a 
week writing an original idea, or a question, or a short 
quotation on the margins and blank pages, it is onlv a 
question of time when this b'ook will become of more 



THE HONEY-MONEY STORIES 



39 



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Hiving a Swarm of Bees 

COMB AND EXTRACTED HONEY 



AT THE present day honey is 
placed on the market in two 
forms — in the comb, and ex- 
tracted. "Strained" honey, obtained by 
mashino^ or melting combs containing- 
bees, pollen and honey has rightly gone 
out of use. Extracted honey is simply 
honey thrown out of the comb in a ma- 
chine called a honey-extractor. The 
combs are revolved rapidly in a cylinder, 
and centrifugal force throws out the 
honey. The comb remains uninjured, 
and is returned to the hive to be refilled 
again and again. For this reason ex- 
tracted honey is usually sold at a less 
price than comb honey, because each 
pound of comb is made at the expense 
of several pounds of honey. 



40 



THE HONEY- MONEY STORIES 



value to the reader than some of the most expensive 
books in the world. 

A boy was sent by his father on an errand across a 
ravine through which a creek ran. The trip was one 
of several miles, and, when returning, the boy thought 
to shorten the trip he would go through a half-mile of 
shrubbery and swamp. But in this place he found no 
paths, and wasted as much time as he expected to 
gain. When he reached a bank from which he could 
see the wanderings he had made, he recognized many 
mistakes while in the shrubbery and swamp. He might 
have saved the time he expected to save had he 
known, at the start, what he knew by observation from 
the bank after the trip. 

It is a wise man who is able to make good use even 
of expensive experiences, and it is a man of great wis- 
dom who is able to gather and profit by the expensive 
experiences of others. Use the margins of this book. 




Where the bese hustle for you 



THE HONEY-MONEY STORIES 



41 




A City Roof Bee-Farm 

3 XT WOULD be greatly for the health * 

\ JL of the present g-eneration if honey f 

\ could be at least partially restored t 

J to its former place as a common article P 

J of diet. The almost universal craving' f 

J for sweets of some kind shows a real f 

J need of the system in that direction, but t 

J the excessive use of sugar brings in its f 

J train a long list of ills. Besides the » 

J various disorders of the alimentary canal, f 

w that dread scourge — Bright's disease of f 

J the kidneys — is credited with being one f 

^ of the results of sugar-eating. When \ 

^ cane-sugar is taken into the stomach, it \ 

cannot b'e assimilated until first changed \ 

by digestion into grape-sugar. Only too f 

often the overtaxed stomach fails to k 

properly perform this digestion, then T 

comes sour stomach and various dyspep- 4^ 

tic phases. I, 



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42 THE HONEY-MONEY STORIES 



About Money 



In the first century A. D., under the emperors Augus- 
tus Caesar and Tiberius in Rome, the property of crimi- 
nals was confiscated and converted into money, whicli 
v/as lent free of interest to those poor who could ofifer 
security for twice the amount they wanted to borrow. 

It was in the second century after Christ that the 
liumane custom obtained in Rome of permitting slaves 
to deposit extra earnings to create a fund for the final 
purchase of their freedom. 

Legion (Regimental) savings banks were also pro- 
vided under the Roman emperors for the accommoda- 
tion of the soldiers. 

Copper was the first metal used in important money 
transactions, the Roman "as" being originally a pound 
of copper, just as the modern English pound sterling 
was originally a pound of silver in the time of William 
the Conqueror (in the nth century), although today 
the silver pound sterling is only about ^ of a pound 
in weight. 

The word "coinage" comes from the Latin cuneus, 
a wedge or die with which to stamp the metal. 

The oldest coins have a stamp on but one side. 

Gold arrow heads, gold knives and swords, gold rings 
and bracelets and golden chains were made long before 
gold was used as money. However, gold was used as 
money in China as early as 2257 B. C, but was not in 
common use, that is to say, the debtor could not be 
compelled to pay it. 

The permanent use of gold as legal money cannot be 
traced back further than the time of the Emperor 
Julius Caesar in Rome in the first century R. C. 

For the next thirteen hundred years, i. e., until the 



THE HONEY-MONEY STORIES 



43 




•44 THE HONEY-MONEY STORIES 

Roman Empire ended with the fall of Constantinople 
in 1204 A. D., no prince or Pope, or other potentate 
within the Roman Empire (which meant pretty much 
all of the civilized world), was allowed to coin any 
gold, except the Roman emperors. 

The coinage of gold was reserved as a sacred prerog- 
ative by the emperors of Rome as chiefs of the Roman 
state and High Priests of the Roman religion. 

Money was sometimes legally debased. The Roman 
denarius, for instance, was first coined in Rome at the 
rate of six coins out of an ounce of silver ; in B. C. 216 
seven were coined out of an ounce of silver; in 45 A. 
D., under Augustus Caesar, there were eight to the 
ounce ; under Xero, eight and one-half to the ounce ; 
under Hadrian, nine to the ounce; under Gallus, four- 
teen to the ounce, and by the year 475 A. D. every bit 
of silver was gone and the denarius was made entirely 
of copper. 

The Latin name for money, pecunia, is derived from 
pecus, a flock, and it is probable that the English word 
"fee" is connected etymologically with the German 
word Vieh, meaning cattle. 

Cattle were also used as money in early Colonial days 
in our own country. We find a law passed by the 
Colony of Massachusetts in 1658 ordering that no man 
should pay taxes in lank cattle. At this time tobacco 
was used as money in Virginia. 







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45 



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are Friends 



YOU HAVE heard that fruit is 
gold in the morning, silver at 
noon and lead at night, but now 
let me tell you that pure honey is liquid 
diamonds all the time, and the pure food 
laws enable you to secure guaranteed ex- 
tracted pure honey of retailers. 



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THE HONEY-MONEY STORIES 



How Dillon Did Me Up 



Let me tell you the story of that pair of pants I 
tore in 1874, as a boy is possessed of about 400 times 
as much feelino^ as he is generally credited with having. 

Once upon a time, in those days when I was study- 
ing between the lines of my geography how to corner 
two men with three upon the checkerboard, I needed 
a pair of pants. 

I knew I needed them and I became so positive that 




THE HONEY- MONEY STORIES. 47 



M GIVE CHILDREN HONEY $, 

TfT ?•? 

# 1J ROE. COOK says: "We all know # 

*f* 1 how children long^ for candy. This *#* 

^;* lono:in2' voices a need, and is an- %" 

■Jj.^" other evidence of the necessity of sugar '^••j" 

''•Jr" in our diet. Children should be given all ''£" 

■^!.J" the honey at each meal-time that they % 

'Jj.J" will eat. It is safer, will largely do away ^l^ 

wli with the inordinate longing for candv '£ 

.^k. and other sweets ; and in lessening the ,X 

.$- desire will doubtless diminish the amount .'Jj. 

^^ of cane-sugar eaten. Then if cane-sugar ^ 

.w*i. does work mischief with health, the harm .'i^ 

iOi may be prevented." ^»^ 

^♦^ Ask the average child whether he will ^^ 

i«i have honey alone on his bread or butter ito 

*♦* ?f? 

i«i alone, and almost invariably he will ife 

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^♦jt promptly answer, "Honey." Yet seldom ^ 

i*i are the needs or the tastes of the child i»i 

Ti? ■*.••• 

i«i properly consulted. The old man craves ^Ji 

iji fat meat; the child loathes it. He wants ^ 

•Sr sweet, not fat. He delights to eat honey ; ^ 

i^iL it is a wholesome food for him, and is «{i 

i^i not expensive. Why should he not have i^ 

i*k it? ^^ 

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they were produced in a hurry from country-store 
cloth. 

I don't suppose that $10.00 would have purchased in 
this country, at that time, an outfit equal in value to 
some of the $5.00 combination suits for boys, now sold 
everywhere, but honey is as pure to-day as in the days 
of Samson. 

The next morning on my way to that geography 
lesson I fell. I don't know why or how, but when I 
got up there was a five-inch opening in the knee of 
the left leg of those pants. 

The sky grew dark, life became painful, my coun- 
tenance disturbed the dining-room group that evening 
so much that they voted the cloth no good and that I 
was blameless. 

Those pants produced such a desert of woe that 
years of memory on clothing are blighted all around 
that lamentable date. At that stage of American his- 
tory a suit with an extra pair of pants was as undevel- 
oped as an international silver dollar. 

But speaking of checkers makes me think of Dil- 
lon. Dillon had just one rule for playing checkers, 
and that was, "Play to beat." When I met Dillon I 
thought I knew how to play checkers. After beating 
my mother and father and Erastus Hathawav, I ran 
up aganist Mr. B. Powers, the painter. It took me 
about 6 months to conquer Mr. Powers, and it was a 
dozen years after that I met Dillon, and T was never 
able to beat him though a book was purchased on 
checkers and how to play the game. Still Dillon 
would let me have about one game in twenty just to 
encourage me. The embarrassing part of the whole 
experience consisted in the fact that Dillon was over 
ninety years old, and continued to play his rule to beat 



THE HONEY-MONEY STORIES 



49 



for years after that. He was in his one-hundredth 
year when he said good-bye to the visible world. 

Another uncomfortable part of the experience with 
the board between us was that I got a rubber manu- 
facturer to sit beside me and try to help me out, but 
together we were not able to corner Dillon when he 
really wanted to get out of a close place. I never 
thought any the less of him for his beating me so se- 
verely, because he was one of the youngest and most 
cheerful of elderly men. 

Had I known how to use milk, honey, meat and 
cereals, and exercise systematically, I might have had 
a clearer head. In those days I swallowed a great deal 
of foolish food. Dillon was a careful and small eater. 
He alwavs quit when he had enough. 




The blossoms have added beauty in the promise of fruit 



THE HONEY-MONEV STORIES 



History of a Boy's Cane 




"Mr. James, you know that cane you let father have 
■ — well, it is a little short for him now. and you said 
you wanted it back when he was through with it — do 
you wish to take it with you now?" 

I am "Mr. James," and Mrs. Hart, who asked me 
this question, lived with her father. The old gentle- 
man had just enjoyed his ninety-eighth birthday, and 
I had called to have a few minutes' chat with him. 
A few years before my wife and I had rented Mrs. 
Hart's front parlor for the winter. 

TTiis man had an atmosphere of hearty good cheer, 
and I have often gone out of my way to visit a little 
while with him. It was a real pleasure to me to let him 
take the heavy cane I had used when a boy, because I 
enjoyed pleasing the old gentleman, and because I had 
longed to have that cane give some elderly man real 
enjoyment. 

It was a wholesome looking article. My father 
made it for me during the Philadelphia centennial, 
while I was walking with crutches in a little town hun- 
dreds of miles away from the great show of the na- 
tions. 

It is one kind of imprisonment for a boy to walk with 
a cane, but it is also one kind of liberty for a boy to 
hang up his crutches and be able to walk with a cane. 
The compensations of nature enable us to get pleasure 
where it would seem at first glance there could be 
nothing but sorrow. 

The Osage orange fences grew near us. and good 
material for canes could be had with little effort. Ex- 
cept when land is useless, a neglected Osage orange 



THE HONEY-MONEY STORIES 



51 




Honey Eaters 



fence is used only for canes. It is g-ood for little canes 
and big" ones. The polished knots can be made as 
bright as birds' eyes. 

I had a great variety of walking' sticks and made 
them to give away or to sell. One succeeds in making 
a success of the work he thoroughly understands. I 
was not thorough in the cane business because while 
I knew how to make them I lacked commercial infor- 
mation necessary to produce sales. Had I known a 
boy in the city, some boy with business sense, I could 
have sent him canes, he could have sold them and we 
might have grown an industry that would support 
both of us. 

Had my parents realized the food force in a very 
thin coat of pure houev on a slice of good bread and 
butter, I might never have been forced to use 
crutches and canes. 

The real reason for this record is one of regret. One 
day while I was using the cane I came home from 
school and found my grandfather had come for a visit. 
He was the only one of mv grandparents living, and 
we thought more of each other than I then realized. 



52 THE HONEY-MONEY STORIES 

During the last nearly score of years I have seen my- 
self many times as I stood in the kitchen door and re- 
fused to give or sell him that cane. 

He admired it ver\ nuich. It was better propor- 
tioned for him than for me, and I have wished more 
times than I am years old that I had given it to him. 
He teased me to sell it to him and I refused several 
times, insisting on keeping it. 

It is a mystery to me why such discords are possible 
in this world. I never enjoyed that cane a particle 
after grandfather left. He gave me a dollar and said 
good-bye, and I never thought for a moment of giving 
him the cane. 

A few months later my father and I attended his 
funeral and since then I have had a love for elderly 
men. It may be that my selfishness over the cane has 
been a blessing to others by the reaction of my emo- 
tions. I am forced, by my lack of wisdom in the past, 
to study the comfort and pleasure of elderly men. It 
may be that my grandfather never cared as much for 
that cane as I thought he did, and that Prodivence per 
mitted me to be painfully selfish for a moment in order 
that I might be more thoughtful ever after. 

Some time ago a man wrote that he now wished he 
had spent less time in his "den" under the stairs trying 
to be a modern Shakespeare, and more time getting 
acquainted with his father and mother, sisters and 
brothers. 

Since I have learned more about the hearts of others 
I am able to recognize the lost opportunities. 






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Two Heads 



One worker met another and exclaimed, "If it hadn't 
been for ycu I never could havt. landed that man." 

The reply was, "Well, I couldn't have dcme the 
work you did. ' 

The first speaker had a h'i^- stomach and ^reat force. 
The other worker has more brain than digestive capac- 
ity. 

The latter is visionarv, theoretical, anahtical, but he 



54 'i"HE HONEY-MONEY STORIES 

studied the man in troul)le and suggested a field for the 
man of force to push the man of trouble into, to help 
him. 

The man of thought invented relief, but it is doubt- 
ful if he could have carried out his invention alone. 

The question of thought, flesh and push are con- 
tinually forcing themselves in front of our daily work. 

A man thirty-five years old confessed that he had 
never studied to see what foods made him energetic or 
lazv. Later he announced that he had learned that his 
condition depended to a great extent upon what he 
ate. Few people know about the great food value to 
be found in pure honey. 

Many men who ask for help could help themselves 
were they to eat and think in a way to grow backbone. 

The physical intellect is unconsciously popular while 
the mental intellect is an entertainer at a distance and 
studiously conscious. 

INIodern improvements are not only good for the 
body, but they improve the brain by increasing mem- 
ory, accuracy and carefulness. 

As a rule, hearty eaters are very fleshy. Some very 
fleshy people are small eaters. Occasionally a very 
thin person will consume an almost unlimited amount 
of food. 

People with even flesh and energy are happy, but 
careful and temperate at their meals. Extra flesh does 
not always indicate extra strength. 

A young man left home looking poor in the face, 
but weighing a hundred and sixty pounds. He re- 
turned after a few months at school with a very fleshy 
face but liad lost ten pounds in weight. 

Muscle is heavier than fat, and hard muscle than 
soft. Eating- too much reduces strength and in some 



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55 



cases lessens natural flesh. Extra Mesh hinders phys- 
ical harmony but a very heavy man often develops a 
good deal of muscle in handling himself. 

Those who lack the normal amount of flesh are able 
to improve themselves by a close study of foods, eat- 
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56 THE IIONEY-MONEV STORIES 



Mental Occupation 



At thirty-five he had money and honors but lost 
them. For twenty years he Hved a very simple and 
wanderin.^" or inactive life. Durins^ the last five years 
he has been picking np and now has $25,000 with a 
good position and an income of several thousand a 
year. A few days ago I called upon him. He has an 
unsually comfortable office. He had been reading 
how successful men eat and he told me that they were 
reported to eat anything they came across, not paying 
any attention to their stomach, but all of them were 
busv at some kind of work. 

His observaion had been that when a man stopped 
work he soon went to pieces ; that systematic thought 
and exercise were necessary for continued health, 

A mechanic, who has a little shop he has run for 
many years, is sometimes tempted to close it because 
it pays him so little. My advice to him has always 
been that he could afl^ord to run it for his healtli. 
Were he to stop his work he would lose his directive 
power and then his energy. He cannot do the heavy 
work he did thirty years ago, but at sixty-seven he is 
in better health than he was at forty-five. 

I have often thought of the story of the butcher 
who had made sufficient monev upon which to retire. 
He sold his shop and soon became miserable. His 
wife missed him day by day and became suspicious. 
Upon investigation she discovered that he was work- 
ing for another butcher in a nearby town. 

Would you live better and longer — then push some 
useful work as long as you live, and use honey. 



THI-: HONEY-AIONEY STORIES 




The trees and the bees are our true friends 

The Old *'Oil Slinger" Machine 



More than half of my Hfe ago the cashier of a bank 
tapped on the window as I was passing and motioned 
me in. He was a stockholder in a factory and offered 
me a place I had been seeking. That was Thursday 
afternoon and the last day of high school for me. The 
next morning at seven o'clock I stood by a big chuck 
as one of seventy workers. My clothing was not suit- 
able for any machine, and the chuck-machine was the 
worst one on clothing. The boys smiled and predicte(' 
a change in my appearance very soon. 

Mv work was to knurl the head of the long screw 
which moves the jaw of a monkey-wrench. Tn those 
davs the chuck had to be stopped and started for each 
screw ; as it started up the oil began to fly, and the 



58 THE HONEY-MONEY STORIES 

faster the chuck revolved the greater the penetrating 
power of the oil when it hit me. In order to do the 
work I had to get in the way of the oil ; I did the 
work, but traced the oil from my clothing to the chuck 
and the screw which came to me loaded with it. 

The oil was secured in the thread-cutting machine 
where a steady stream ran on the die ; some would 
have seen all this at first glance without thinking, but 
I did not ; I even studied the bearings as the source 
of the trouble, before finding it on the screws. When 
I did find the place of the trouble I put a bunch of 
waste there and laid the screws on it before putting 
them in the chuck ; the waste drew the oil off and the 
machine lost its name. The machine lost its name 
because I was dissatisfied with conditions, began trac- 
ing the trouble, and found a remedy. 

When a former workman at that chuck visited the 
factory and asked where the oil had gone to, on being 
told the plan he opened his eyes and said nothing. He 
may have been thinking about the amount of oil he 
had taken home on his clothing. 

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shop and factory, in homes and on the farm, for better 
methods and orio^inality, mutually useful to em- 
ployer and employe. 

The Oil of Life 



When a person discovers he has a negative manner 
that hinders his social life how is he to revise him- 
self? 

The magnetic or positive nature boils over with 
attractive agreeableness without being conscious of 
anything but joy or enthusiasm. 

People collect around the person wiio is overflowing 
with goodwill and natural happiness. 

The oil of life is an abundance of life itself. As re- 
serve forces diminish there is a dryness of manner 
Vv^hich produces negativeness. 

It is a piling up of reserve force that produces pos- 
itiveness and popularity. A lack of inherited energy 
hinders, but a knowledge of self and the application of 
useful truths compensate. 

By continued study of the things that depress and 
the things that exalt, one is able to see the way to pos- 
itiveness by accumulated strength. 

A little heating plant trying to warm a big space 
is going to squander coal, soon use up itself, anrl al- 
ways be unsatisfactory. 

Ventilation is to the home or ofifice wliat circulation 
of the blood is to the individual. 

Good goods cost money, but poor goods cost more 
money, and a great deal of trouble also. 

Five dollars for continued health is a better invest- 
ment than fifty dollars for sickness. 

Every family in the world deserves a healthy, com- 



6o THE HONEY-MONEY STORIES 

moclious home and wisdom to keep it in ideal condi- 
tion. 

Good work, good homes, good health, bnt a neg- 
lected leak will soak your pocketbook and hinder 
your sleep. 

The best bargain is getting something which must 
be done, well done. 

Plucky investigations make lucky discoveries. 



Sickness and Youth 



All but health ! F"riends, money, schooling, oppor- 
tunity, yet discouraged and a sufferer. 

The }oung person with poor health has the sym- 
pathy of the writer because twenty years ago he was 
in the same condition. 

There is an age in one's growth where depression 
of life's forces puts one beyond the influence of drugs, 
travel, recreation, and the help of friends. Right here 
is the place to investigate foods and exercises. 

Should a little strength be gathered and hope return, 
unconscious carelessness wastes the strength and scat- 
ters the hope, till time comes when this temporary im- 
provement has been secured and lost so many times, 
it is looked upon with doubt whenever it returns. 

How to manage self is an ever important subject, 
but how to use one's strength, when it is like the last 
flickering match in the damp forest, is the subject next 
to preparation for eternity. 

The encouraging and educating of a young person 
with continued poor health is a department in personal 
intelligence. How to think in time to save strength is 
mental preventive medicine. How to grow a substan- 
tial enthusiasm that will not be displaced by any com- 
mon emotion or temptation, is a study in self-control. 



The Bee-Keeper's Lullaby. 



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Buckwheat Cakes and Honey. 

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Comb Honey 
Not Manufactured 



A STATEMENT has been ^^oing 
the rounds of the press to the 
effect that nearly all the comb 
honey on the market is manufactured by 
a "cute machine," that the combs are 
filled with glucose and capped over by 
a mechanical process. The facts are. 
there is no such thing as manufactured 
comb honey anywhere in the United 
States, and in proof of this the publish- 
ers of leading bee journals of undoubted 
responsibility offer one thousand dollars 
for evidence to shbw that comb' honey is 
manufactured, or that such an article is 
for sale in the open market. Although 
this offer has been out for fifteen years 
and has been duplicated by other re- 
sponsible persons connected wit-h the in- 
dustry of bee-keeping, no one has ever 
seen fit to take it up. 

The United States Department of 
Agriculture has put out several published 
statements denying the existence of 
manufactured comb honey, and the 
American Grocer, the leading trade or- 
gan of its class, assures its patrons that 
all the comb honey on the market is abso- 
lutely the product of the bee. 



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